Family: Gnaphosidae Banks, 1892 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0054] Back

Gen. Micaria Westring, 1851 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02448 ]
N.B.: replacement name for Macaria C. L. Koch, 1835: 129, pl. 14 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05750], preoccupied in Lepidoptera by Curtis, 1826; placed in Micariidae Banks, 1892 by Mikhailov & Fet, 1986 but not by subsequent authors; considered a senior synonym of Bona Pavesi, 1884a: 466 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05750] (type Drassus fastuosus Lucas, 1846 (preoccupied) = Micaria ignea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) by Simon, 1897a: 175 (sub Micariolepis); considered a senior synonym of Micariolepis Simon, 1879c: 161 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05749] (type Chrysothrix splendidissima Simon, 1878 = Micaria dives (Lucas, 1846), replacement name for Chrysothrix Simon, 1878b: 30 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05748], preoccupied in Mammalia by Kaup, 1835) by Wunderlich, 1980h: 238; considered a senior synonym of Epikurtomma Tucker, 1923: 333 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02425] (type E. beaufortia Tucker, 1923) by Murphy, 2007: x, 67 and of Castanilla Caporiacco, 1936a: 110 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02232] (type C. marchesii Caporiacco, 1936, transferred from the Corinnidae) by Haddad & Bosmans, 2013: 397; considered a senior synonym of Arboricaria Bosmans, in Bosmans & Blick, 2000: 450 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04307] (type Micaria cyrnea Brignoli, 1983) by Wunderlich, 2017b: 315 (contra Mikhailov, 2016a: 155, confirmed by Breitling, 2017: 26).
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-12-01
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Westring, 1851: 47 (type Aranea fulgens Walckenaer, 1802; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
124accepted
65synonym
13nomen dubium
Reference

Westring, N. (1851). Förteckning öfver de till närvarande tid Kände, i Sverige förekommande Spindlarter, utgörande ett antal af 253, deraf 132 äro nya för svenska Faunan. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 2: 25-62. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2017-07-21 Genus synonymy Wunderlich, 2017b Arboricaria synonymized with Micaria